a few Connecticut college questions

CamelMan21
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:32:34 +0000

about how safe is teh campus and the town?

the town is safe and students frequent the bars, cafes, and restaurants. New London is a strange town in its range of personality, broken down by sections:
Conn College is in north New London which is mostly the college and Coast Guard Academy, and is very woodsy and quiet.
Downtown New London is fairly vibrant with many shops and housing.
Just north of downtown is an area around Williams Street with nice old homes where a few Conn College students or graduates choose to live every year.
*Just south of downtown is a sketchier area. When there is crime in New London, it tends to be exclusively in this neighborhood amongst people who know each other.
Just south of that neighborhood is an upscale suburban area referred to as South of Hospital. It features large expensive homes, Mitchell College, and Ocean Beach.
It is an odd hodgepodge, but between the ample stores, and nice beaches, New Lo isn’t a bad place to attend college.

how far to the nearest airport that wd go to chicago?
I would imagine that Hartford/Bradley would have flights to Chicago. That’s about an hour away.

did I read coll board right that the m/f ratio is 38/62? was CC at one time an all girls college?

It is more like 40/60 but is often more like 42/58 for what those percentage points are worth. It used to be a women’s college but went coed in 1969, the same year Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity (all formally men’s schools) also went coed. Honestly, had I not been told it was a former women’s college, I wouldn’t know based on the culture of the school. Although the fact that almost all of the buildings are named after women is a tip-off.